In my damn Electronics feed I started seeing posts about cricket. It turns out that this is because of an acronym PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board) 🤣.

Temporal Anomaly Clock. The clock shows time with its local anomalies. The sensitivity is set to 5 but "it goes up to 11". I did not dare go set it that high. #esp32 #vfd #esp32ntpclock

handsome fellow

While 65536 makes sense to me, 2^32 (4294967296) is beyond my consciousness. I do not recognize this number.

I do not recognize myself... I am becoming more and more abusive towards Gemini. I know that it tries hard but why the f**k it keeps adding citations to the code???

I know how to control my neighbor's leaf blower! I can hack it at any time. I can turn it on whenever I open a window!

A comparison of #Meshtastic #LoRa nodes in rural and urban environments. It sounds like the use of LoRa for community networks is steadily growing. hackaday.com/2025/10/09/m...

Inside a Germanium Transistor

This completely mind blowing and we can aford going about our daily life. We are speck of life on a speck of rock on a speck of fire on a speck...

Interesting psychological implications of interacting with AI. ​The news talks about people having "relationships" with AI, which seems possible given the human capacity for, well, anything. ​I try not to anthropomorphize AI, but I caught myself doing just that. ​

Asked Gemini to replace print() with logging in an old Python script. It did, but then started refactoring my code unprompted. When I asked WTF, it replied: "I apologise. I got carried over..."

It is official: I hate GIT. It is overcomplicated with questionable teminology, and I failed to learn anything beyond basics. Bad merge left my code like a pile of streaming s**t, and I can't check out develop branch. What are my options? Spend two hours fixing the code?

Did you know that birthdays are good for your health? Studies show that people who have more birthdays live longer.

Smartphone Sensors Unlocked: Turn Your Phone into a Physics Lab

I ordered 20 of those connectors and received 280. I am trying to imagine how this might have happened. 1. Disgruntled employee packed the content of the entire bin. 2. One picker instead of taking one pack from a bin took entire bag and went for a lunch. Another one put the whole bag into a box..

This Soviet-Style Clock Uses Homemade Nixie Tubes and Glowing Logic

Adafruit @adafruit.com is an absolute icon in providing not only fun parts but also education!

I am in love with 1970s calculator bubble LED displays. Cuteness overload! I am using HT16K33A breakout board because it is a damn common anode display. I will add an RTC this time, but this will require a level shifter. #esp32

Sign of the age that compute is now a mass noun, like sand, rice, water, money. Too numerous to count, or to make plural.

Politics.

I love watching machining YouTube videos. This is like magic for a guy who use wire snips and soldering gun... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CBT...

Yesterday's thrift store find: Royal Digital I calculator with VFD display. The curious thing is the use of lowercase 'o' to display blanks and zeros. Technically, the blanks are zeros, but they are being suppressed in contemporary displays.

Today I had my first "voice chat" with Gemini (2.5 Pro). We chatted for half an hour while driving home from work. It wasn't bad, but nothing to write home about (imagine that kind of feedback on technology that's only a few years old).

Did AT&T bail out on you and you cannot use email to text feature? @finnleydolfin.dolphinhome.net just created a GitHub repo with a step-by-step instruction on how to set up texting with API (paid but it seems inexpensive) from VoIP.ms: github.com/FinnleyDolfi...

Most of the red flags this guy lists as identifying AI writing are just the boring, banal, and pointless extra-wordiness that we were taught to do in high school and college level English classes in the USA. ChatGPT must've been trained on a fuckton of college English papers. youtu.be/9Ch4a6ffPZY

Gods are real. My uni buddy just gave it to me since he is losing his vision.

I'm old enough to remember when our #1 concern about the veracity of online information was that anyone could edit Wikipedia

I miss World of Tanks. I do not have any Win box to run it anyway...

Added printf statements in hardware

About 20 Pounds xkcd.com/3085

Just keep buying. One small thing after another. Adadruit is a gem we can't let go.

Slide #1 from a box of slides. Where did I get them from?

Today's fleamarket find: Machlett ML-6544 (I am not sure why it is marked AGD-6544) a potem triode for pulse modulators in radar applications. The anode heat sink seems to be a sterling silver. Supposedly, it was used for Nike misile guidance.

Did you know that if you hold your ear up to a stranger's leg you can actually hear them say "What the fuck are you doing?

Throwback Thursday: 2005 Sterling Silver Pyramid Locker with Magnetic Lock.

I am absolutely freaked out about Geoffrey Hinton remark about dangers of AI: "The best way to understand it emotionally, is that we are like somebody who has this really cute tiger cub. It is just such a cute tiger cub...

There is NO now... www.youtube.com/shorts/bdK54...

I asked the librarian if they had a book about Pavlov's dog and Schroedinger's cat. She said it rang a bell but she wasn't sure if it was there or not...

I have this cool old industrial thermometer with screw-on shield. Unfortunately, the red alcohol separeted and now it has this bubble, which renders it unisable. Gemini advised to stick it into the coldest place in a freezer and then slowly warmi it up. This did not work. Any idas?

Legs 🙄

cuteness oveload! TI-1250

Small U.S. town grew a big company. Now it’s in a tariff storm : NPR DigiKey is one of the world's largest marketplaces for electronic components, shipping global orders from a single warehouse in Thief River Falls, Minn. Dan Koeck for NPR hide caption toggle caption Dan Koeck for NPR THIEF RIVER…

Now what?

Gemini, identify 5 coolest vintage displays with pictures of them. 1. Nixie Tubes 2. Vacuum Fluorescent Displays (VFD) 3. CRT Vector Displays We will stop here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_...

I knew, but I didn't know all the interesting details. Now, also you can find out!

This is about me!

Resist! Resist a lot!

Genini, I am trying to play a sound bit on ESP32 using 8-bit DAC and class D 3W amplifier. Unfirtunately, a conversion form mp3 to wav with Audacity involving 8kHz downsampling introduces a noise, which can be heard during a playback on a computer. How to minimize the noise?

A vacuum tube rolled off my desk. The result was predictable. When live gives you lemons... disect them. This was 6AL5 Twin Diode, miniature type.